Insight in Arachnids

 Gorgeous Photographs by Junkaholique

I sent this to a friend recently 

hoping to help fill in some of the space with understanding words

but quickly and quietly afterward I could not pull myself from it

From Leaves of Grass

                    A Noiseless Patient Spider

A NOISELESS, patient spider,

I mark’d, where, on a little promontory, it stood, isolated;

Mark’d how, to explore the vacant, vast surrounding,

It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself;

Ever unreeling them—ever tirelessly speeding them.

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And you, O my Soul, where you stand,

Surrounded, surrounded, in measureless oceans of space,

Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing,—seeking the spheres, to connect them;

Till the bridge you will need, be form’d—till the ductile anchor hold;

Till the gossamer thread you fling, catch somewhere, O my Soul.

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